A recent survey suggested that eating tomatoes and broccoli together can enhance the anti-cancer potentency possessed by tomatoes and broccoli.

In the survey, rats were injected with mortal prostate tumors. And they were fed powdered tomato and dried broccoli. Wore as well in the survey was finasteride, a drug that shows to slow the benign expansion of the prostate.

The learn uncovered that the rats utilize diets with tomatoes and or even broccoli get the smaller tumors. The diet with both tomatoes and broccoli is virtually all efficient and finasteride is least efficient in slowing the tumor expansion.

Tomatoes are known for its anti-cancer properties. Lycopene is believed to be the major active component in tomatoes that is responsible for the anti-cancer activity.

Anti-cancer bioactivity has been reported in broccoli. It's believed that glucosinolates can be responsible.

The learn was conducted by Dr. John Erdman and colleagues at University of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign.

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John Roberts is a freelance writer for foodconsumer.com

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